A website that only ever returns a single plain text message isn't very useful! At a minimum, it ought to return static HTML pages, CSS stylesheets the web pages use, and any other static resources such as images and videos.
In both Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio Code, add a new file to the wwwroot folder named index.html, and modify its content to link to CDN-hosted Bootstrap, and use modern good practices such as setting the viewport, as shown in the following markup:
<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head> <meta charset="utf-8" /> <meta name="viewport" content= "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0-beta/css/bootstrap.min.css" ...